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0. & 0. J. DECKER.

BUSTLE.

N0. .374.660. Patented Dec. 13,

F VLtneSSeSK UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER C. DECKER AND OLIVE J. DECKER, OF KEOKUK, IOWA; SAID OLIVE J.DECKER ASSIGNOR TO JAMES AYRES AND PETER AYRES, OF

SAME PLACE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 374,660, dated December13, 1887. Application filed October 17, 1887. Serial No.252fi03. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, ALEXANDER G. DECKER and OLIVE J. DECKER, of Keokuk,in the county of Lee and State of Iowa, have invented certain new anduseful Improvements inBustles, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to bustles, and has reference to a novelconstruction of the frames thereof. 1

IO Inthe drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of our improved bustlewith some of the tapes, attaching-straps, &c., omitted; Figs. 2

and 3, side views illustrating slightly different forms of theinvention, and Figs. 4 and 5 I5 views illustrating the manner ofsecuringthe tapes in position. We desire to state here that we are aware that ithas been proposed to provide the upright arms of bustle frames with. aseries of coils or eyes, (arranged in a substantially upright'position,)one above another, to receive the ends of the bows and to compensate foror permit the folding of the bustle-frame, and it is to overcome some ofthe objections to such a construction that the present invention isdesigned.

The bustle-frame proper is made of a single piece of wire bent to form ahorizontal how, a, and upright arms I) b. The arms b b are formed bybending or twisting the wire in theform of a helix, ,0, the ends at ofthe wire, or, that portion of the arms above the helix, being carried tothe opposite side of the bustle frame and connected with its opposingarm I) or with 5 the bow at near the base of the arm. In Fig. 1 the ends(1 of the wire cross at the middle of the top, and, after being unitedat that point D by the tape or tapes 6, they are connected with orsecured to the uppermost coil of the helix o 0 of the opposing arm.

In Fig. 2 the ends d project downwardly through the majority of thecoils of the helix, and are madefast to. one of the lower coils, whilein Fig. 3 the ends d, instead of connect- 5 ing with the lower coils, asin Fig. 2, extend entirely through the series, are bent to form a coilor helix,f, and are attached to the how a near the base of the arms I)b. This construction of the frame proper permits folding of the bustle,and besides being much stiffer is easier and cheaper to make than theframes to which we have before referred.

The bows 9 may be connected with the bends or coils of the helix, as inFigs. 1 and 3, or to upright helical arms b b.

2. A bustle-frame comprising a horizontal how, a, and upright arms, theends or extensions d of the arms being carried to opposite sides of thebustle-frame and secured to the upright arms, substantially as shown.

3. The herein-described bustle-frame, comprising horizontal bow at, arms11' b, having each a helix, 0,-extensionsd (1, extending from the upperends of the helices to the opposite side of the bustle, and bowsg 9, allcombined substantially in the manner shown.

4. The herein-described bustle, comprising bow at, arms I) b, providedwith helices c, an extension, (1, extending from each arm and secured tothe opposite arm and provided with a helix,f, and bows 9, all arrangedsubstantially as described.

In witness whereof we hereunto set ourhands in the presence of twowitnesses.

ALEXANDER -C. DECKER. OLIVE J. DECKER. Witnesses:

N ANNIE M. SMITH, W. J. SOHLOTTER.

